The dismissal of the Mavericks program leaders came after an official probe found the team had used three ineligible players during the 2017 season. The team was forced to forfeit all 22 of its regular season games but retained the state title because it was won without any of the ineligible players competing in a single postseason game.

That does little to help the program now, with the Mavericks suddenly facing a very uncertain future.

Fernandez, who was a pitcher on the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins team, told the Sun-Sentinel that he and Bielski are scrambling to keep together the coaching staff that delivered such an impressive run at Archbishop McCarthy and help them land somewhere else.

As for the Mavericks, with the entire coaching staff gone, questions will shift to who can lead that program on. It won’t be anyone with immediate experience leading some facet of the team; they’re all gone.